Rigg, Patricia. Julia Augusta Webster: Victorian Aestheticism and the Woman Writer. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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Friends, Associates | Augusta Webster | She made her entry into the city's literary circles with the assistance of Theodore Watts
, later Theodore Watts-Dunton, who was a great supporter of her work and later a colleague at the Athenæum... |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Webster | Vernon Lee
described in a diary entry attending a housewarming party at the Websters' in Hammersmith: An enormous crush, of ill-dressed, eccentric literary pumps. I spoke to Wm Rossetti
, Watts
, Sharp
... |
death | Augusta Webster | Theodore Watts-Dunton
's tribute in the Athenæum recalled a noble band of women represented by George Eliot
, Mrs. Webster, and Miss Cobbe
, who, in virtue of lofty purpose, purity of soul, and deep... |
Literary responses | Augusta Webster | Theodore Watts
gave this book a glowing review in the Athenæum. Rigg, Patricia. Julia Augusta Webster: Victorian Aestheticism and the Woman Writer. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 197 Athenæum. J. Lection. 2803 (1881): 229 |
Literary responses | Augusta Webster | In the 1870s and 1880s AW
was mentioned in periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic—in Harper's and Scribner's, for instance, as well as in English publications—as one of the leading women poets of... |
Friends, Associates | Algernon Charles Swinburne | He likely owed much of the happiness and stability of his later years to the dedication and support of Theodore Watts-Dunton
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Health | Algernon Charles Swinburne | He battled his alcoholism with the help of Theodore Watts-Dunton
, who intervened when his friend's health teetered dangerously close to death. In September 1879 Swinburne went to live at The Pines, the Putney house... |
Textual Features | Christina Rossetti | The internal monologue The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children occupied a bridging position in this volume between the first section of secular poems, and the final shorter section of devotional pieces. Its scriptural... |
Textual Production | Mollie Panter-Downes | MPD
published a biography about the domestic life of Algernon Charles Swinburne
and Theodore Watts-Dunton
, entitled At The Pines: Swinburne and Watts-Dunton in Putney. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1973 Contemporary Authors. Gale Research. 101 |
Textual Features | Mollie Panter-Downes | MPD
recreates the odd household of Watts-Dunton
and Swinburne
in Putney, the backwoods of West London, Panter-Downes, Mollie. At The Pines. Hamish Hamilton. 1 Panter-Downes, Mollie. At The Pines. Hamish Hamilton. 18 |
Friends, Associates | Pauline Johnson | During this visit she was invited to the home of Theodore Watts-Dunton
, where she met Algernon Swinburne
. When Charles G. D. Roberts
met Swinburne two years later, the latter confirmed that PJ
and... |
Education | Mary Gawthorpe | Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre
in the LeedsSchool Board
offices. There MG
continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and... |
Friends, Associates | Michael Field | They made a friend of George Meredith
some time before 1890 and visited him often. Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray. 66 |
Dedications | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | Emma, Baroness Orczy
, published a novel entitled Petticoat Government, which she dedicated to Theodore Watts-Dunton
. Lancaster, William Joseph Cosens. “Petticoat Government”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 430, p. 125. 125 Emmuska, Baroness Orczy,. Petticoat Government. Hutchinson. prelims |
Friends, Associates | Lady Charlotte Elliot | Little is known of LCE
's married or social lives, or of how much, if at all, she moved in literary circles: one writer she knew was Theodore Watts-Dunton
. She wrote and illustrated a... |
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